Kinds of Kindness - Yorgos Lanthimos film opens 6/24!

I see it as being a study of human submissiveness. It's the main thematic issue that runs through the 3 stories.

Also did you notice that the guy whose name is used in all 3 stories dies in the first one, but is brought back to life in the last one?

Yes, I did notice that. I liked that part a lot, it reminded me of Amores perros.

‘Submissiveness’ is a great way of putting it. I did see parallels with Phantom Thread in terms of self-destructive devotion. I suppose with R.M.F. being brought back to life, it does reveal itself as a ‘supernatural’ undertaking. Until then, though, I was approaching it via Mulholland Drive and maybe Dogtooth where things are immensely weird, but not quite resurrection-level weird. So I feel like my brain just didn’t calibrate properly. Anyway, I don’t know. So far my take is ‘what the hell’, and not in an awed way.

Funny that I much preferred Poor Things, though, because I distinctly remember leaving the cinema after Poor Things convinced for some reason that I’d like the ‘other’ ‘24 movie better.

How tragic that I have absolutely no one irl to even attempt bringing these up around.

This is now available on demand. I bought it today and enjoyed it. Good performances and an interesting screenplay make this unusual film a rewarding and entertaining experience. I would rank this as the 5th best film of the year so far.

Rewatched Poor Things recently, and definitely must rewatch this.

Maybe I should attempt this again.

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I don't think I'm in the minority when I say the first story was easily the most tolerable one (Plemmons and Dafoe's "break-up" scene was the best scene in the whole movie) and it all went downhill from the opening titles of the second one... Stone and Dafoe tried but Kinds of Kindness were one baseless idea after another, trying to shock us than to say anything that justifies it's 3-hrs runtime. I could only smile for so long... eventually I almost had a nap.

(gotta say I'm not the biggest Lanthimos fan btw; this was only (and marginally) better than Killing of your Sacred Time.

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Nah, the real minority is those of us who throughly enjoyed the movie!

I concur.

I’ll watch it just for Joe Alwyn. So handsome.

Yay to Aaliyah!

I enjoyed this movie. Funny as hell.

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